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Sweating sickness, also known as the sweats, English sweating sickness, English sweat or sudor anglicus in Latin, was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485.
21 de may. de 2024 · Sweating sickness, a disease of unknown cause that appeared in England as an epidemic on five occasions—in 1485, 1508, 1517, 1528, and 1551. It was confined to England, except in 1528–29, when it spread to the European continent, appearing in Hamburg and passing northward to Scandinavia and.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
History and Geography. The sweating sickness, or sudor anglicus, is one of the great puzzles of historical epidemiology because no modern disease corresponds very well to its principal epidemiological and clinical features.
24 de ago. de 2017 · Excerpt from a book by German author Euricius Cordus (1486-1535) about a new deadly illness, what is now known as sweating sickness, c. 1529. It’s unclear who first contracted sweating...
24 de mar. de 2020 · What was the Sweating Sickness? And how did Henry VIII ‘self-isolate’? During the Tudor period, a disease known as Sweating Sickness killed tens of thousands of people in Britain. Historian Tracy Borman reveals the gruesome effects of the sickness and how Henry VIII was sent into a “wild panic”…
6 de feb. de 2015 · The sweating sickness first appeared around the time Thomas Cromwell, later chief minister to Henry VIII, was born, at the end of the dynastic Wars of the Roses, and there has been some debate...
10 de feb. de 2015 · In the first episode of BBC historical drama Wolf Hall, based on Hilary Mantel’s novel of the same name, Thomas Cromwell returns home to find his wife and two daughters have all died during the night, victims of a pestilence – the “sweating sickness” – that is scything through the Tudor world.
